Dr. Littmann's Legacy

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Advancing the art of listening through the years.

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When French physician René Laënnec invented the first stethoscope in 1816, it was simply a rolled-up paper tube that funneled sounds from his patients’ chest to his ear. It was not until the early 1960s that Dr. David Littmann, M.D., (1906-1981), would patent a revolutionary new stethoscope design that was lighter, more convenient to carry and use, and with vastly improved acoustical performance.